NASCAR has had something similar for a while now. When NASCAR began racing the new Gen 6 car a couple of years ago, Denny Hamlin complained (correctly) that the old car produced better racing than the new one. NASCAR fined him $25,000.

NASCAR has had something similar for a while now. When NASCAR began racing the new Gen 6 car a couple of years ago, Denny Hamlin complained (correctly) that the old car produced better racing than the new one. NASCAR fined him $25,000.

And then we wonder why we get “no comment” type reactions on questions. Boo Indycar. We saw this rule misused in F1 too often under Max Mosley, certainly not looking forward to seeing that happen in the US.

NASCAR has more fans than IndyCar based on both TV ratings and live attendance. The best TV rating for IndyCar (The Indy 500) is what the average NASCAR race is. However this is changing as more sports leaves network TV for cable/satellite subscription TV.

For whatever reason, IndyCar struggle to get large crowds at oval events (excluding the…[Read more]

Sean Doyle has it pretty much covered. I’ll add these:
The season is just about less than six months long, so a long winter drought.
Expect a lot of driver changes in the smaller teams. There are “pay” drivers, and many teams have oval / road course -only drivers.
Expect even more livery changes, even in the bigger teams.
Don’t expect to see any…[Read more]

In a nutshell, it is similar enough to F1 to invite direct comparison, but only just.

-Heavier, spec-series cars
-Half again the engine displacement, still a turbo V-6 but without the hybrid propulsion. The nod to renewable energy is a sop to the ethanol industry in the US.
-Under various forms, in some ways it is both much older and much younger…[Read more]

First of all, i will pay my final rites to the
late Jules Bianchi.
RIP Jules.

And now, to the point:
I want to start following the IndyCar series,
but the problem is, i know absolutely nothing about it,
except the series’ name, the fact that JPM
is racing, and that it involves car racing :P
In short,…[Read more]